130201a Picea abies subsp. abies
Distribution
Northern Fennoscandia: Present only in the Borderline Arctic
Kanin - Pechora: Scattered
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Presence uncertain
Shrub Tundra: Scattered
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent
2n=
24 (2x). - Europe, Russia. - Several reports.
Geography: European: RUS.
Notes: Tollefsrud and Elven: The results of Tollefsrud et al. (2008, 2009) show that the western limit of subsp. obovata runs in the Urals, and that the northern Fennoscandian and European Russian plants are of the same postglacial Russian stock as other northern European Picea abies, albeit with some introgression from Siberian subsp. obovata through pollen (Tollefsrud et al. 2008). The problem remains that the northeastern Fennoscandian plants, and probably the northern Russian ones, too, differ rather markedly in some morphological features from the more southern ones (see, e.g., Christensen 2000).
Higher Taxa
- Picea abies [130201,species]